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• Dept. Of 99 Problems About 95 Theses: Nexus Of Catholic-Protestant Hate Moves From Belfast To Iowa

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Catholics, Dept Of 99 Problems About 95 Theses, Iowa, Iowa Straw Poll, Mike Huckabee, Protestants, Sam Brownback

  Are the Republicans ready to nominate someone whose flavor of Christianity makes the base a little uncomfortable? Someone who says he worships the same Jesus that they do, but who belongs to a...

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• Protestant countries have higher employment rate

  Published: September 27, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Society, Employment Rate, Protestants, Religions, University Of Bath

  Countries where the main religion is Protestant Christianity have higher employment rates than those where other religions are dominant, according to University of Bath research published in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.

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• Death Penalty: Dead Man Talking

  Published: October 29, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Media Criticism, Minorities, Racism, Crime, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Political Correctness, Poverty, Psychology, Women, Family, Death, Human Rights, Torture, Moral Values

  Though some try to hijack the issue of capital punishment into a left vs right tailspin, it’s not a pol issue at base; it’s a thinking issue about, “How shall we who are of, they say, greater minds than other creatures, how shall we live together in the forest? … a forest that is filled with great peril, more so for some

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• Abortion: What It Takes To Make It To Earth

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:21 am

  Tags: Abortion, Christianity, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Judaism, Medicine, Ideologies, Protestants, Political Correctness, Feminism, Religious Right, Christian Conservatives, Children, Family, Mother, Father, Babies, Philosophy

  I had a night dream long ago about how hard it was to get to earth. For those of us who get pregnant when just passing through a room where a man is reading a newspaper and no more, it has sometimes seemed as though women becoming pregnant, carrying to term, and laboring to bring a living baby into this world is easy, common, like falling out of a

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• Gay Rights:The Religious Who Teach Non-violence, Non-condemnation of GLBT

  Published: November 8, 2007, 3:02 am

  Tags: Minorities, Glbt Issues, Jews, Protestants, Christians

  Rev. Bob Graetz, friend of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., has criss crossed the country, preaching and teaching, including in the heartland of America, the Midwest, which is mis-touted by some as a bastion of conservatism that is purported to condemn and freeze out anyone who doesn't conform a narrow principal. But, no one informed The

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• Kristallnacht: The Night of Shattering Glass, 9 November 1938

  Published: November 9, 2007, 7:43 am

  Tags: Endangered Species, Glbt Issues, Anti Semitism, Christianity, Roman Catholics, Germany, Ideology, Jews, Civil Liberties, Tyranny, World War Ii, Nazis, Protestants, Mass Murder, Storytelling, Death, Poland, Totalitarianism, Corruption

  The Night of The Shattering Glass otherwise known as Kristallnacht, took place November 9, 1938, marking to that date, the most widespread attack against Jews in peacetime Germany and Austria. In France, two days prior, a 17 year old Jew had shot a German embassy staffer in retaliation for the egregious treatment of his father and family at

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• Diversity as Christian Practice Not Just a Church Program (by Diana Butler Bass)

  Published: November 27, 2007, 10:08 am

  Tags: Mainline Protestants, Race

  A week before Thanksgiving, I spoke in Lake Tahoe for the clergy convocation of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church, a sprawling geography that comprises a wide array of congregations in big cities and small rural towns. The wide variety of clergy reflected that of the churches the group included many women, persons

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• Advent Awakenings to the Jackhammer on the Roof (by Karen Ward)

  Published: December 12, 2007, 1:23 pm

  Tags: Churches, Mainline Protestants, Theology

  The denomination which I am now seeking to enter and belong to, the Episcopal Church, is a denominaton that many others are now seeking to depart. Such a situation carries within it two things: danger and opportunity. The danger is self evident. The opportunty will come from listening to the jackhammer on our roof. The image of

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• Women, Faith, and Presidential Politics (by Diana Butler Bass)

  Published: January 11, 2008, 1:19 pm

  Tags: Academia, Evangelicals, Feminism, Mainline Protestants, Theology, Casting Stones

  During the South Carolina Republican debate, Mike Huckabee garnered greatest applause when defending his views of wifely submission as part of his evangelical faith. The questioner quizzed Huckabee about being one of 131 signers of a 1998 USA Today ad by the Southern Baptist Convention that asserted, "a wife is to graciously submit herself to the

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• Pedophile Priests and Latinos: A Diminishing U.S. Flock

  Published: April 28, 2008, 4:43 pm

  Tags: North America, Other, Protestants, Christians, Pope Benedict, Newspapers, Vatican, Hispanics, Columnists, Christianity, Minorities, Society, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Usa, Mexico, Sexuality

  Much has been written in the foreign press about the real purpose of Pope Benedict XVI’s unprecedented election-year visit to the United States. Some charge that he came to bolster the only pro-life candidate, John McCain. Others have surmised that the Pope came to make common cause with President Bush to oppose the perceived threat of an

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• Methodists protest rejection of same-sex unions

  Published: May 2, 2008, 9:40 pm

  Tags: Homosexuality, Protestants, Christianity, Religion

  On Wednesday delegates at the United Methodist Church’s General Conference voted that marriage should not include same-sex unions and that homosexual acts are not compatible with Christian teaching. Not a surprise, the votes: Approved, 517-416, keeping the statement that the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian

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• The Cardinal Speaks: Father Pfleger Agrees Not To

  Published: May 31, 2008, 2:38 am

  Tags: Christians, Multiculturalism, Moral Values, Black African American, Culture Wars, Popular Culture, Protestants, Religion, Racism, Roman Catholics, Social Commentary, Money Finance

  In the genre of Pastors and Ministers In the News Related to One Candidate or Another through Frail Associations or by Entering the Time Traveling Machine: Father Pfleger agrees not to speak about specific presidential candidates, that is…. otherwise free to speak about whatever else. At The Unity Church in Chicago recently, Father

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• Senator Obama Resigns His Membership at Trinity Church

  Published: May 31, 2008, 6:52 pm

  Tags: Popular Culture, Protestants, Christians, Moral Values, Newsweek Blogitics, Black African American, Hispanics, Language, Barack Obama, Freedom Of Speech, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Social Commentary, 2008 Elections

  UPDATE: Juan Williams reports to Fox News that many black people surrounding him having angry reactions to Obama resigning from Trinity. UPDATE: Senator Obama has made his statement tonight saying he has resigned from Trinity. The Clinton campaign has refused comment. Likely, after today’s delegates meeting, not to torpedo any chance

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• Good News in Pew's Latest Survey (by Marcia Ford)

  Published: June 26, 2008, 11:05 am

  Tags: Churches, Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants, Pew Forum On Religion Amp Public Life, Polls, Suveys, U S Religious Landscape Survey

  Whenever I hear those three little words -- "the latest poll" -- I generally tune out. Pollsters and survey-takers seldom ask the right questions, I've found, so the responses they get are less than reliable. One exception is the surveys conducted by The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and the organization's U.S. Religious Landscape

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